There is nothing special about the year 2000, yet the start of the third millennium proved a focus for many deep anxieties and expectations. Four of the world's boldest and most celebrated thinkers offer a vast range of insights into how we make sense of
“You said that time doesn’t exist,” she says, “so I took the liberty of coming to see you.”“You did the right thing,” he replies without taking his eyes off her. She is a student with some questions about physics. And he is Albert Einstein,
The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case, when a man with a wooden leg swaggered into the French courtroom, denounced du Tilh, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. This book, by the noted histo
In the next volume in co-edition with the Louvre museum we go back to the very origins of the Louvre as a museum: the tumultuous years of the French revolution. Its also the story of another painting, that of the young Bara, a 13 year old martyr of the Re
Jean-Claude Carrière a écrit et ordonné ces histoires comme s'il s'agissait d'un nouveau manuel de philosophie. C'est la philosophie par les contes, un manuel où le chemin vers la sagesse serait hasardeux et plaisant, uniquement constitué des meilleu
Los Angeles has always been a place of paradisal promise and apocalyptic undercurrents. Simone de Beauvoir saw a kaleidoscopic "hall of mirrors," Aldous Huxley a "city of dreadful joy." Jack Kerouac found a "huge desert encampment," David Thomson imagined
In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of [his] passion" for the word. From musings on Ptolemy and "the force of the false" to reflections on the exper
